If you are the founder and CEO of a unicorn startup, sure, you won’t have to worry about money ever again, but that’s hardly the average entrepreneur. According to research from Payscale, the average base salary for small business owners is $69,147 per year — not that much higher than workers, although similar caveats apply about the range.
In addition, business owners have the opportunity to take distributions from their profits, assuming their business is successful enough to generate excess profits.
In reality, though, there are no theoretical limits to how much you can make as an entrepreneur, but unlike those drawing a paycheck, there is also the risk of earning nothing — or even losing money, if you have invested your own savings as capital.
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